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		culi on Sept 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon's Global Quest to Crush Unions > 3 years parental leave As an american worker, this is unimagineable. My company just announced that they've increased the maternal leave to a whole 3 weeks... To show off how progressive and forward they are Meanwhile heavily unionized casino workers in Las Vegas are having the company help them finance their houses, months of maternal leave, and will even help people pay for school. All for blue collar work

pyuser583 on Sept 4, 2022 [–]

Amazon has pretty good parental leave. Most tech companies do.

xenospn on Sept 4, 2022 | [–]

“Pretty good” in the US is 12 weeks with a heavy side dish of guilt.

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